Broadcast of a report about the North Korean ballistic missile launch. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 8North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported citing the military.
"North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan. sea", the agency reports.
Later, the media clarified that we are talking about two short-range ballistic missiles. They were launched from the area of the city of Munchon, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan. North Korea has carried out several missile launches since the end of September in response to the refusal of the United States and South Korea to stop military exercises. In Pyongyang, they are considered as a rehearsal for the war against the DPRK. All missiles were supposedly ballistic, the flight altitude was about 50 kilometers, and the range was from 300 to 400 kilometers. Some of them flew along a non-standard trajectory.
Japan's upper house of parliament condemned North Korean missile launches